Week 3: Landscape (Atrium)

This week the main objective of the session was the drawing of the Atrium using a medium that has a wide tonal range. This drawing was done during night time in order to take advantage of the different chromatic the lighted buildings have by use of soft pastels and this took an hour to complete. The style used is impressionistic mostly chosen because of the complexity of the image. The horizontal line is on the ground since the artist's eyes were at the same level, the implied lines go towards the centre of the drawing. There is foreshortening present, especially on the Atrium building. Hues were varied throughout, in order to show where the main areas of interest are.
Despite the fact that there is a range of hues and some interpose to create unity in the composition, shades were barely used because of the style chosen. More tints could have improved the impressionistic image and perhaps more attention to the shape of the buildings could have improved the drawing.